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Collars of SS. (Vol. iv., pp. 147. 236.).
—In compliance with the wish of MR. E. FOSS, that all information bearing on this subject might be sent to you, I beg to state that I have carefully examined two monuments in this neighbourhood on which this ornament appears.
The first is in Macclesfield church. In the north aisle is an altar-tomb, with the effigies of a knight in plate armour, with a collar of SS. At his feet is a ball; and under his head, which is uncovered, a helmet with crest and lambrequin. The crest is too much defaced to be made out, but in a sketch made in 1584 is figured as a stag's head. Tradition assigns this tomb to one of the family of Downes; but it is surrounded by the monumental effigies of the Savages (one being that of the hero of Bosworth), and bears the arms of Archbishop Savage, who is said to have repaired it.
The other, which is an exceedingly beautiful monument, and in excellent preservation, is in the chancel of Barthomley church. It is an embattled altar-tomb: on the sides are figures, somewhat mutilated, of knights and ladies, sculptured in bas-relief, under richly crocketted gothic canopies. The knight is in plate armour, with a coif de mailles and pointed helmet (exactly of the same character as the effigy of Edward the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral), and wears a collar of SS. most elaborately carved. It is known as the tomb of Sir Robert Fulleshurst, one of the four esquires of the gallant James Lord Audley at the battle of Poictiers, who died in 13 Rich. II. (In Bunbury church, there is an alabaster altar-tomb to Sir Hugh Calveley, the famous Captain of "Companions" at the battle of Najara, who died 1394. It is so exactly similar in every respect, with the exception of the collar of SS., to that of Sir Robert Fulleshurst, that of the sketches I have made of both you could not distinguish one from the other.)
There are also said to be effigies bearing the collar of SS. in the churches of Cheadle, Mottram, Over Peover, and Malpas, of which I will send you some notice as soon as I have seen them.
LEWIS EVANS.
Sandbach, Cheshire.
Pronunciation of Coke (Vol. iv., p. 244.).
—In confirmation of the opinion that his name was pronounced Cook, I beg to send you an extract from the Life of Sir Edward Coke, by C. W. Johnson, 1845, vol. i., p. 336.:—